The Breeze — Restaurant in Gilford

The Breeze We’ve been anxiously awaiting checking out the new restaurant opening where The Lyon’s Den was at Gilford Town Docks. Soft opening was last week and tonight we had dinner there for the first time. First of all, the renovations they’ve done were fantastic. The fireplace make-over is gorgeous but most notably the huge bar now faces the lake with all the views. I love the modern farmhouse decor and rustic chic is what comes to mind. Anyway, it’s very comfortable, casual and elegant at the same time. Ok, back to the food. The menu is classic American in all the best ways and with all your favorites. We started with onion soup and it was excellent. There were appetizer specials, and we tried the skewered grilled shrimp and veggies. There was a chili wasabi glaze that was just right. The Haddock was excellent and came with hand cut fries and an apple slaw -so good. Cocktails were generous and perfect. Dessert offered a chocolate mousse cake, key lime pie and we choose to split the lemon curd tart which was the perfect end to a lovely Spring Day. Overall I’d give 5 stars with the suggestion to add a few more vegetarian items. Interestingly there’s a very short customer service survey enclosed with your bill asking for feedback, so I did share that. Overall, I know we’ll be back as regulars throughout the year. Wishing the new owner, and staff...

Hostess was so rude to the bachelorette party I had brunch with here, accused us of making reservations at the other location when we called other location we had not and we had proof on maid of honor phone she had called this location. Made dirty faces at us when walking by our table multiple times. We were first guests in/seated when it opened, multiple other tables received their drinks and food far before us, took 30 minutes to get any drinks including water, took 1 hr and 15 min to get any food. And once again we were the first guests in the door and were nothing but kind and respectful. When talking to the manager assured hostess would be spoken to, even after that hostess gave dirty looks and no one including manager ever offered to comp brides meal or take any percentage off. Food was ok, the only thing that saved any part of it was Grace the waitress was so sweet and trying hard to be prompt, obviously very busy and stretched thin but she was great. Will not be recommending or coming back and the hostess needs a lot of retraining on customer service and just not being a...

If I had left a review after my first meal four days ago, it would have been 5 stars. That was the first time we had gotten food from The Breeze and it was absolutely delicious. The seafood saffron had a wonderful sweetness and subtleness to the sauce, the seafood cooked perfectly. App of fried oysters was great, and the remoulade is one of the best I've had. The meal was so good that we ordered again 3 days later. I got the same app and meal because I liked it so much the first time. The oysters were terrible. They were not cleaned and every one was full of sand and crunchy. The seafood saffron was overpowering. There was so much saffron in it that it turned my stomach. The shrimp and scallop (there's only one scallop in the dish) were both quite undercooked with the slippery, almost raw texture. Only the lobster, and this time there was almost none of it, was not undercooked. I tried to get through it but I ended up throwing half of it away. I don't know if they have different chefs on different nights, but judging by the second meal, we...